KASABIAN (ALBUM)

'''Kasabian''' is the self-titled debut album by the British rock band Kasabian, released in 2004. The Manchester-tinged album spawned four singles and rose to 4th on the UK Albums Chart.
Different geographical regions had different colours for their album cover. The UK version is black and white, the UK import is black and red, and the U.S. version is black and blue.
This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005 (#100).
In the United States it uses the MediaMax CD-3 system.

Contents

Track listing

DVD+ Edition

Miscellanea

External links

Track listing

#"Club Foot" – 3:34
#"Processed Beats" – 3:08
#"Reason Is Treason" – 4:35
#"I.D." – 4:47
#"Orange" – 0:46
#"L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)" – 3:17
#"Running Battle" – 4:15
#"Test Transmission" – 3:55
#"Pinch Roller" – 1:13
#"Cutt Off" – 4:38
#"Butcher Blues" – 4:28
#"Ovary Stripe" – 3:50
#"U Boat" – 4:08
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★ Note: "U Boat" contains the hidden track, "Reason Is Treason (Jacknife Lee Mix)" which was featured on the '' soundtrack, and the opening credits to ''Gran Turismo 4'' for the PlayStation 2. The running time listed is for "U Boat" alone, excluding the gap and the hidden track (which starts at 7:05).

★ "Orange", "Pinch Roller" and "Ovary Stripe" were not included on the original US issue, but were later included in a 2005 reissue.

DVD+ Edition

The DVD+ Edition is a special double sided disc with the audio on one side and 45 minutes of video material on the other side.
It contains the following:
:Reason Is Treason video
:Club Foot video
:L.S.F (Lost Souls Forever) video
:Making Of Club Foot video
:Making Of L.S.F (Lost Souls Forever) video
:Field Of Dreams (shot at Farmstock gig in May 2005)
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Miscellanea

★ This is one of many albums that was released with a controversial copyright protection program which limited the amount of copies that could be made of the disc and prevented the files from being ripped into MP3s. The software also prevented the CD from being uploaded onto iTunes, and thus iPods. Incidentally, iPod users who contacted BMG's customer support were given instructions on how to upload it onto iTunes, which involved circumventing the encryption software. Users were told to burn a disc using the encryption software, and then using the burned disc to upload their songs.

★ The song "Club Foot" was used in various video games, including ''Marc Ecko's Getting Up'', ''Pro Evolution Soccer 5'', '', ''Tony Hawk's Project 8'' and ''.

★ In an interview on the UK's Channel 4, Kasabian guitarist Sergio Pizzorno declared this album to be 'a big, psychedelic mash-up on a farm.'

★ The song "Reason Is Treason" appears on the video game Gran Turismo 4 and is also used as the intro music.

★ The Song "Reason Is Treason" was featured on the fifth soundtrack of Fox's hit show ''The OC'', entitled ''.

External links

★ Official site